Editing Hurricane David (section)

{{Short description|Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 1979}}
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{{Infobox weather event
| image = David 1979-08-31 1500Z.png
| caption = David at peak intensity near landfall in [[Hispaniola]] on August 31
| formed = August 25, 1979
| extratropical = September 6, 1979
| dissipated = September 8, 1979
}}{{Infobox weather event/NWS
| winds = 150
| pressure = 924
}}{{Infobox weather event/Effects
| year = 1979
| fatalities = 2,078
| damage = 1540000000
| areas = [[Lesser Antilles]], [[Hispaniola]], [[Puerto Rico]], [[Cuba]], [[The Bahamas]], [[East Coast of the United States]], [[Atlantic Canada]]
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| season = [[1979 Atlantic hurricane season]]
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'''Hurricane David''' was a devastating [[tropical cyclone]] which significantly damaged and killed many people in [[Dominica]] and the [[Dominican Republic]] in August 1979, and was the most intense hurricane to make [[landfall]] in the country in recorded history. A long-lived [[Cape Verde hurricane]], David was the fourth [[named storm]], second hurricane, and first [[major hurricane]] of the [[1979 Atlantic hurricane season]]. David formed on August&nbsp;25, in the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean near [[Cape Verde]] off the coast of West Africa. Two days later, the storm reached hurricane strength, then underwent [[rapid intensification]], strengthening into a Category&nbsp;5 hurricane and reaching peak sustained winds of {{convert|175|mph|km/h|abbr=on}} on August&nbsp;28. By the time the system dissipated on September&nbsp;8, it had traversed the [[Leeward Islands]], [[Greater Antilles]], The [[Bahamas]], the [[East Coast of the United States]], and [[Atlantic Canada]].

David was the first hurricane to affect the Lesser Antilles since [[Hurricane Inez]] in [[1966 Atlantic hurricane season|1966]]. With winds of {{convert|175|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}, David was one of only 2 storms of Category&nbsp;5 intensity to make landfall on the Dominican Republic in the 20th century, the other also being Inez, and the deadliest since the [[1930 San Zenón hurricane]], killing over 2,000&nbsp;people in its path. In addition, David was the deadliest tropical cyclone to hit the island of Dominica since the [[1834 Padre Ruíz hurricane]], which killed over 200 people.<ref name="1834 Dominica hurricane">{{cite book |last1=Neely |first1=Wayne |title=The Greatest and Deadliest Hurricanes of the Caribbean and the Americas: The Stories Behind the Great Storms of the North Atlantic |date=December 19, 2016 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=978-1-5320-1151-1 |page=375 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WYLIDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT375 |access-date=August 9, 2018}}</ref>